Leonard Pitts | GOP must work for black vote

8:30 PM,
Apr. 21, 2013

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Leonard Pitts

Rand Paul did just fine at Howard University, thank you very much. Or at least, that's how he remembers it.

Paul, GOP senator from Kentucky, told the Christian Science Monitor on Wednesday that his recent visit to Howard didn't go so badly at all. He said any perception to the contrary was created by - all together now - the "left-wing media."

Knowing what we do about the political right's capacity for self-deception, we may trust that he's telling it like it is - or at least, telling it like he believes it to be. ...